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Query: KEGG:D02003 (NBT)
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A 3-year-old boy with diabetes mellitus contracted meningitis caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The disease lasted for several months in spite of antibiotic treatment. Diabetes mellitus was poorly controlled and hypoglycemia often occured. Immunoglobulin levels were normal. Investigations of leukocyte functions showed (no bactericidal activity), decreased phagocytic activity and very low NBT dye reduction by neutrophils during phagocytosis. Under the administration of polymixin, leukocyte transfusions and stabilization of glycemia the pathological clinical and laboratory findings disappeared within three weeks. Serial investigations of leukocyte function showed a gradual recovery of normal activity.
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PMID:[Reversible bactericidal defect of leukocytes. Pseudomonas meningitis in a child with diabetes mellitus (author's transl)]. 17 80

A multiplex PCR was employed to amplify unique conserved sequences of DNA from the pathogens Haemophilus influenzae, Neisseria meningitidis and Streptococcus pneumoniae from cerebrospinal fluid samples of patients suffering from acute pyogenic meningitis. The accurate identification of the PCR amplified product was achieved by hybridizing dot-blots of the PCR products to probes which were specific, biotinylated internal sequences of the amplified target DNA. Detection of the hybrids was done in a colour reaction using streptavidin-alkaline phosphatase conjugate and BCIP/NBT substrates. The entire protocol took only 7 h for the correct identification of the pathogen present in clinical samples of cerebrospinal fluid. The sensitivity and specificity were >95%.
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PMID:Rapid diagnosis of acute pyogenic meningitis by a combined PCR dot-blot assay. 1079 66